Disney but with a tinge of darkness too. Cramer's character David is whisked off at uber light speeds to be studied by presumably non-anal probing type aliens. And then he's brought back. Oops, it's eight years later. David has officially been declared dead by heartbroken parents and much missed by his little brother. For tear jerking it's right up there with The Bridge To Terabithia.
NASA have discovered the silvery blob spaceship and taken it to a NASA place of secrecy where they also take David once it becomes apparent that he has all manner of alien information and star charts in his brain. But it's not there for the humans, it's information the ship needs as it is a sort of AI cleverclogs machine that just happens to have lost some vital data on crash landing on the return trip to Earth. Data without which it cannot get home, nor take the other specimens it has collected back where they came from too.
The walking foot that is a hardly-out-of-her-teens Sarah Jessica Parker helps David escape his comfy NASA incarceration and he gets himself inside the ship. He and the blob zoom about, forging a buddy buddy act after trading species insults, and David eventually decides that he wants to leave with the ship - which he has named Max - because the world has moved on eight years and he is stuck as the same twelve year old boy he was when he disappeared.
Spacey craziness happens in a low budget 2001: A Space Odyssey way and David wakes up back in 1978, finds his parents the right age, his brother still a bratty little twot, and all right with the world. Ahh, that's nice. So it was all a dream? Well no, because he's got a tiny cute but potentially bitey alien in his pocket. Which is better than drugs, guns or stolen money, right?
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